Here we go, week seven! This is only my second time posting this on a Friday which is what I had originally intended to do! Thinking about my resolutions every week it’s crazy how fast the weeks fly by! Seven weeks already?!<\/p>\n
1. stay at least one week ahead of our homeschool schedule<\/b>
\nWe are about 3 or 4 days ahead of schedule right now. There are some other long term projects (like my 8th grader’s research paper and my 3rd grader’s science project) that they have been working on overtime since they were assigned, they’re not due for weeks and they’re both almost finished. This is really helpful for both freeing up days for field trips or other outings and for covering sick days throughout the year.<\/p>\n
2. celebrate everyone\u2019s birthday (local and long distance) with a card in the mail.<\/b>
\nI have been horrible at this! Usually I’m really on top of this until March or so, and then I sputter off into oblivion. This year, I’m so caught up in other things, I have been late with every card I’ve sent and I’ve even missed sending notes as well! I hate the idea of scrapping this, but doing something poorly is worse than not doing it at all. :\/<\/p>\n
3. keep our family photo site updated (in the 10 years we\u2019ve had that site, we\u2019ve always been about 3-5 months behind)<\/b>
\nMaking progress!!<\/p>\n
4. start a \u2018what we did today\u2019 journal (index card version is cute)<\/b>
\nI’m so glad we are doing this, it’s so sweet!<\/p>\n
5. quit social media that\u2019s not blog related basically I just wanted to quit Facebook<\/b>
\nWhile I am still fielding ‘why would anyone ever leave Facebook?’ emails and messages from well meaning family and friends, I am still happily not on Facebook and I only use social media as So Very Domestic.<\/p>\n
6. blog 3-5 times a week<\/b>
\nI only blogged twice this week. Boo!<\/p>\n
7. make a lightbox and get better at food photography<\/b>
\nI finally know what I need! Right now optimum photo taking happens between 11am and 2pm by my kitchen window. With a lightbox, I can take lovely pictures whenever, like you know, at 1 am when I am most likely to be finishing up some crazy kitchen creation. I’m also looking for large tiles as backgrounds!<\/p>\n
8. a portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014<\/b> 9. bake a cake every weekend<\/b> 10. participate in sockdown 2014<\/b> 11. finally finish my knitted beekeeper quilt<\/b> I’m replacing alcohol with coffee this year! That means late night coffee drinking with girlfriends instead of wine fueled knitting and so far, so good. Even just a couple glasses of wine with a full meal can make the next morning not so fun for me. This life is way too busy for me to spend Sunday morning nursing myself back to health. Also, I think I get more knitting done this way, even if I have yet to prove that this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here we go, week seven! This is only my second time posting this on a Friday which is what I had originally intended to do! Thinking about my resolutions every week it’s crazy how fast the weeks fly by! Seven weeks already?! 1. stay at least one week ahead of our homeschool schedule We are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[783,167,169,894,99],"tags":[1131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7940,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions\/7940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWeek One<\/a>
\nWeek Two<\/A>
\nWeek Three<\/a>
\nWeek Four<\/a>
\nWeek Five<\/a>
\nWeek Six<\/a>
\nWeek Seven coming tomorrow!<\/p>\n
\nWeek One \u2013 Nutella Icebox Cake
\nWeek Two \u2013 Orange Creamsicle cake
\nWeek Three \u2013 White Chocolate Strawberry cupcakes
\nWeek Four \u2013 Pink Lemonade cupcakes
\nWeek Five \u2013 Red Velvet cupcakes (with cream cheese icing)
\nWeek Six \u2013 Dark Chocolate cake with Strawberry Filling
\nWeek Seven – Pink Strawberry cake with Strawberry Frosting<\/p>\n
\nI’ve been pretty terrible at this as well so far but there is more than enough time to recover. I casted on for January’s lace socks and life got in the way and I haven’t touched them much at all, but technically I have until the end of February to finish them and as long as I cast on for February’s socks before the end of February and finish them before the end of March they count!<\/p>\n
\nUgh. So many puffs to knit still! I have almost 400 hexipuffs but it looks more and more likely that I will need 500 before I can sew it together and actually use it.<\/p>\n